Shade had no idea Adele had appeared. For a brief moment, he had indeed felt someone watching him, but there were many maids in the corridor. Even if someone had glanced at him, it was nothing unusual, so he did not dwell on it.
Before long, Wei Ge and Miss MacDonald appeared together in the 1st Floor dining room after changing clothes. The young, tall lady seemed merely to have changed outfits, while Wei Ge had carefully selected a purple long dress suitable for lunch.
She did not mention having seen Adele just now—mainly because she was afraid of frightening Shade to the extent that he would not dare come again. Instead, during lunch, Wei Ge asked:
"Mr. Watson, please allow me to ask a rather personal question: the Great Witch with whom you share a close relationship is not our Speaker, is she?"
Shade felt as though, in a game of choosing nine from twelve, she had immediately guessed the wrong answer:
"Of course not. For the moment, I do not wish to appear directly before that Time Great Witch."
Wei Ge nodded gently. The three still sat around the square table by the wall, while the maids served the appetizers. Although the Council would hold a collective meeting tonight, she felt that as long as it was not Adele herself, it did not matter even if she did not know which colleague was close to Shade.
The Great Witch of Chaos did not find this game of "catching an undercover agent" amusing. She simply felt that the more she knew, the more likely she would be to expose herself before her fellow Council members.
Moreover, she knew she was a "latecomer." If she learned the identity of those who had come before, she would instinctively begin comparing herself